Daily H-1B Decision-Maker Report · #21 by certified FY2026 filings
October 22, 2026 · Public records only

Salesforce, Inc.: Marc Benioff, Chair, CEO & Co-Founder

This is the person who holds the top job at an organization that filed 1,569 certified H-1B Labor Condition Applications in federal fiscal year 2026 (through June 30, 2026). The figures below come from the U.S. Department of Labor's and USCIS's own public data. Filing H-1B applications is legal; this report shows who is accountable for the organization and what the public record says about its use of the program.

Certified H-1B filings
1,569
Requested positions (ceiling)
2,272
Level I (entry) wage
2.4%
Median offered salary
$203,000
USCIS approvals FY2026
995

Who is responsible

Marc Benioff
Chair, CEO & Co-Founder · Chief Executive · Salesforce, Inc.
Source: Salesforce official leadership page · checked October 19, 2026

Names and titles are as published in the linked sources on the date checked. Leadership changes; if something here is out of date, tell us in the comments below and we will correct it.

Pay levels on 1,569 certified filings

Level I (entry)
2.4%
36 filings
Level II
26.2%
400 filings
Level III
43.4%
662 filings
Level IV (most experienced)
28.0%
427 filings

Percentages are of the 1,525 filings that report a wage level; 44 filings report none. For comparison, 19.4% of all certified FY2026 H-1B filings nationwide are Level I.

What roles they filed for

Occupation (DOL SOC title)FilingsShare
Software Developers88356.3%
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers17110.9%
Information Technology Project Managers16810.7%
Computer and Information Systems Managers825.2%
Sales Engineers412.6%
Data Scientists312.0%
Database Architects271.7%
Computer and Information Research Scientists211.3%

Where the work sites are

StateFilingsShare
CA74447.4%
WA27017.2%
TX21113.4%
NY634.0%
IN543.4%
MA442.8%

Layoffs and offshoring record

Two public records, shown next to the H-1B data above. Neither one says anything about H-1B workers. They are listed because the same organization appears in all three.

State layoff notices (WARN)

Employers planning a mass layoff or closure must notify the state. We found 17 notices that match this organization's name, covering 1,980 employees in total, of which 270 are in notices dated on or after October 1, 2025 (the start of the FY2026 H-1B filing period).

StateNoticesEmployeesSince Oct 1, 2025Latest notice
California151,828211 (3 notices)Aug 5, 2026
Washington215259 (1 notice)Aug 5, 2026

Largest notices:

Notice dateEmployer as named in the noticePlaceEmployeesState record
Aug 5, 2026Salesforce, Inc.415 Mission Street San Francisco CA 9410574CA agency file
Aug 5, 2026Salesforce, Inc.Seattle, Bellevue59WA agency file
Jun 8, 2026Salesforce, Inc.415 Mission Street San Francisco CA 9410586CA agency file
Sep 2, 2025Salesforce, Inc.415 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94105262CA agency file
Sep 2, 2025Salesforce, Inc.Seattle, Bellevue93WA agency file
Feb 4, 2025Salesforce, Inc.415 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94105153CA agency file
Mar 30, 2023Salesforce, Inc.415 Mission Street San Francisco CA 9410586CA agency file
Mar 9, 2023Salesforce, Inc.415 Mission Street San Francisco CA 9410555CA agency file
Feb 2, 2023Salesforce, Inc.415 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94105247CA agency file
Jan 4, 2023Salesforce, Inc.415 Mission Street San Francisco CA 94105650CA agency file

A WARN notice reports a planned layoff or closure at a site. It does not say who was laid off, why, or that anyone held a visa. These come only from the state agencies' own lists, for Texas (from January 2023), California (from July 2022), New Jersey (from January 2023), Washington (searched by employer name). Other states are not included, so a total here is a floor, and an absence of notices means nothing. Each state's notice covers workers at that state's own sites, so one round of layoffs can appear in several states' lists on the same date. This page adds up the notices as filed and does not treat them as a single event.

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Ceiling
"Requested positions" is the number of workers the employer listed on its applications. It is a ceiling the employer asks for on a filing, not a count of people hired.
Legal
Filing H-1B applications is lawful. Nothing on this page alleges wrongdoing. DOL's file flags none of these filings as "willful violator."
Layoffs
The layoff and offshoring records are matched to this organization by name and were each confirmed by a person. State WARN notices and DOL certifications describe job losses at the organization; they do not identify who lost a job, and they do not say that H-1B workers were involved. Putting them on the same page is not a claim that one caused the other.
Data
Source: DOL Office of Foreign Labor Certification LCA disclosure file for FY2026 (cumulative through June 30, 2026), limited to H-1B, certified filings; USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, FY2026. Employers are matched by federal tax ID; the Hub publishes only the last four digits plus a name, so its figure is matched on both and may be incomplete. Page generated October 22, 2026.
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